Das US-Militär hat kürzlich eine geheime Übung zum Umgang mit einer Atombombe im Weltraum abgehalten | US-Beamte sagten, eine nukleare Detonation würde Teile der erdnahen Umlaufbahn für bis zu einem Jahr unbrauchbar machen.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/a-new-us-military-wargame-series-began-by-simulating-a-nuclear-weapon-in-orbit/
13 Kommentare
>US Space Command is inviting commercial companies to participate in a new series of classified wargames. The first exercise simulated a scenario involving a potential nuclear detonation in orbit.
>Gen. Stephen Whiting, the senior officer in charge of Space Command, discussed the new wargame series Tuesday in a discussion hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Space Command is responsible for military activities in space and is separate from the Space Force, which provides the people and equipment to support those operations.
>The new wargames, called Apollo Insight, combine military and commercial expertise to respond to simulated threats in space. Space Command plans to conduct four Apollo Insight “tabletop exercises” this year.
>“We’ve done one already,” Whiting said. “We did one focused on a nuclear payload on orbit, which, of course, is a future we do not want to see, and that would violate the Outer Space Treaty. But we brought 60-something companies together at the classified level to share insights into what such a detonation might do, and then get their good ideas about how we could leverage capability to have today or future technologies that might help us going forward.”
So Iran (or someone else) doesn’t need to make a nuke to reach America, they can make one that goes 100 miles up and kills Starlink….
Project(operation): Argus, Fishbowl, and K(USSR) for actual test data
One thing that scares me most about nukes is not the nuke in the city; Sure, that sucks for the city and surrounding area’s – but nukes in space creating an EMP and wiping out all electronics below the blast area?
That can wipe out all electronics in Europe or the USA.
Imagine waking up and nothing works. No power. No internet. Telephones are dead, all your devices just show a black screen. TV doesn’t turn on. Radio’s wont work (even the hand cranked emergency radio’s), cars won’t start etc. And you have no idea what happened while you slowly starve to death as society collapses.
Makes sense, I believe there was suspicion during Bidens admin that Russia was trying to develop such a weapon.
The DSX spacecraft was built and flown to test technologies to be ready to counter this threat. Remarkably, we are able to talk freely about the objectives as they decided to publish the results: [https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article/2800402/afrl-presents-results-from-dsx-spacecraft-experiments/](https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article/2800402/afrl-presents-results-from-dsx-spacecraft-experiments/)
I served as the Integration and Test Lead for the spacecraft bus. The basic principle is that you can use radio waves to add/subtract energy to particles in orbit and thus force them to either get flung out of orbit or deorbited thus reducing residual radiation and making space safe for satellites after a blast.
please should never be aloud into space , let it all be on earth please
In 1962 the US launched a series of high altitude nuclear tests under the name Operation Fishbowl. [YT ](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=operation+fishbowl)and [WikiP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl)
Basically, the EMP pulse is very different up there. The tests also caused auroras and radio black outs.
Today, with many constellations of satellites like Starlink in orbit and future data centers too, such an event would fry anything close and f-uo anything far.
That’s fine. I didn’t plan on going there anyway soon.
Yes, we know that since decades and Starfish Prime. Thanks DOD.
Last year Trumpians discussed TS information about space based ASAT weapons that the Soviets had developed. I recall designing a system for an SDI space based telescope that protected against this. We had TS/SC data on the performance of such Soviet weapons. This shit has been REAL since the 80’s.
I don’t recall the performance characteristics. A TBI erased much of my memory. So I don’t have nightmares about it any more. But my wife remembers that I used to.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[ASAT](/r/Space/comments/1tc83q8/stub/olmfo4p „Last usage“)|[Anti-Satellite weapon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon)|
|[TS](/r/Space/comments/1tc83q8/stub/olmfo4p „Last usage“)|Thrust Simulator|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1tc83q8/stub/olmbqtq „Last usage“)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
Decronym is now also available on Lemmy! Requests for support and new installations should be directed to the Contact address below.
—————-
^([Thread #12413 for this sub, first seen 13th May 2026, 19:38])
^[[FAQ]](http://decronym.xyz/) [^([Full list])](http://decronym.xyz/acronyms/Space) [^[Contact]](https://hachyderm.io/@Two9A) [^([Source code])](https://gistdotgithubdotcom/Two9A/1d976f9b7441694162c8)
This is stupid and assumes that none of the dead satellites will then collide. The likelihood of Kessler syndrome occurring post event is high.